National inquiry into maternity care announced by Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, the UK declared a national investigation into birth care, “Now we must take action,” he said.

The “fast” investigation will urgently look at the worst performance of birth and newborn services in the country, including Leeds, Sussex, Gloucester and Mid and South Essex.

The streeting met with parents who lost their babies in a number of NHS confidences and said that the investigation would “get these families to get the truth they deserve and accountability.”

This summer will start and report until December 2025.

On Monday, the street apologized to families who were prevented from NHS.

The Gulf of MoreCambe comes after a series of birth scandals such as East Kent, Shrewsbury and Telford and Nottingham.

Streeting said that the investigation would include victims of birth scandals and give families a sound about how the investigation was carried out.

He said, “No parent or the baby would never disappoint again”.

“I know that no one wants thousands of NHS midwives, birth experts, birth and newborn personnel for women and babies, and that the majority of births are safe and unjustified, but it is clear that something goes wrong.” He said.

“Last year, I meet the mourning families who lost their babies from all over the country or suffered seriously damaged the most cheerful time in their lives.

“What they’re going through is destructive – deeply painful trauma, loss and lack of basic compassion – NHS is caused by failures that should not cause failures in motherhood care.” He said.

“The courage to speak clearly revealed: We have to move – and now we have to act.”

The investigation will consist of two parts. First, he will look for a maximum of 10 of the motherhood and newborn units to respond to the affected families as soon as possible. It has not yet been decided to define these units.

Secondly, it will take a system -wide look for birth and neonatal care, and each NHS will bring together the courses from past questions to create a national set of action to improve care in motherhood service.

Black, Asia and other communities receiving inadequate services are planned to overcome inequalities in care.

The announcement comes after a number of critical report for birth care in the last decade.

• In March 2015, an investigation found that mothers and babies were unnecessarily in university hospitals of the Gulf of Morecambe NHS between 2004-2013 – the report described a dysfunctional culture that could not properly explore and learned lessons.
• In March 2022, an investigation into the services in Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust found that more than 200 mothers and babies could survive with better care.
• Later, in October that year, he found that at least 45 babies might have survived if an investigation and appropriate treatment had been given to birth services at EAST Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust.
• And a study of 2,500 cases are examined by NHS Trust, and a review of the birth care provided by NHS Trust.
• Meanwhile, an annual examination conducted by the inspectors at the Maintenance Quality Commission in 2024 did not determine that one out of 131 of the examined did not take the highest level grades to provide safe maintenance.
• Families in various regions, including Sussex, Leeds and Oxford, also call for local investigations about birth services.

Dr. Clea Harmer, General Manager of Charity Sands, said that the national investigation was “very needed and superior for a long time.”

He said it should be “permanent systemic change.”

Anne Kavanagh, a lawyer of Irwin Mitchell, representing a number of influenced families, said that the scandals “all of them pointed to national rooted problems”, so the government’s announcement was accepted.

Authorized, the national investigation, “from previous reports and investigations, unfortunately many suggestions are not fully implemented, patient safety to improve the safety and errors to learn from important opportunities should lead to a decisive action, he said.